Time: 12:30-2:00 PM
Location: Microsoft TEAMS – https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/281803729567634?p=LfOilodi5xKiC9oL3X
Committee website: https://uwm.edu/secu/governance/faculty/standing-committees/graduate-curriculum-committee/
I. Call to order
II. Announcements
III. Automatic consent
1. Approval of the May 2026 meeting minutes.
2. Course Action Requests
a. Course Inactivation Proposals (Inactivate = temporary & Discontinue = forever)
| Course # | Course Title | Course Change |
| ARCH 326 | Energy Design Fundamentals | Discontinue |
| ARCH 380 | Drawing in Architecture | Discontinue |
| ARCH 521 | Environmental Systems: Resources-Fluid Distribution Systems | Discontinue |
| ARCH 522 | Environmental Systems: Lighting and Acoustical Design | Discontinue |
| ARCH 534 | Field Study: | Discontinue |
| ARCH 550 | Seminar in Building Types and Settings | Discontinue |
| ARCH 551 | American Vernacular Architecture | Discontinue |
| ARCH 553 | Vernacular Buildings and Groupings | Discontinue |
| ARCH 580 | Graphic Techniques for Architects | Discontinue |
| ARCH 583 | Emerging Digital Technology: | Discontinue |
| ARCH 584 | Urban Landscape Architecture | Discontinue |
| ARCH 587 | Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Built Environments | Discontinue |
| ARCH 716 | Art of Detailing | Discontinue |
| ARCH 750 | Proseminar in Environment Design Research | Discontinue |
| ARCH 788 | Green Building Seminar | Discontinue |
| COMPLIT 320 | Mediaeval Literature and Culture: | Discontinue |
| COMPLIT 321 | Renaissance Literature an Culture: | Discontinue |
| COMPLIT 449 | Modern and Contemporary Drama | Discontinue |
| COMPLIT 463 | Literary Criticism: Major Authors | Discontinue |
| COMPLIT 464 | Seminar in Comparative Literary Criticism: | Discontinue |
| COMPLIT 504 | Seminar in the Novel: | Discontinue |
| COMPLIT 704 | Seminar in Cultural Studies: | Discontinue |
| COMPLIT 707 | Seminar in Methods of Literary Analysis: | Discontinue |
| COMPLIT 733 | History of Literary Criticism | Discontinue |
| COMPLIT 821 | The Art and Modes of Translation: | Discontinue |
| COMPLIT 971 | Problems of Comparative Literature: | Discontinue |
| ECON 712 | Urban Economic Theory | Discontinue |
| ECON 713 | Regional Economic Theory | Discontinue |
| ECON 806 | Mathematical Economics | Discontinue |
| FRENCH 450 | Institutions and Culture of Contemporary France | Discontinue |
| FRENCH 510 | Seminar on Masterpieces of Literature Written in French: | Discontinue |
| ITALIAN 460 | The Italian Novel from Manzoni to the Present | Discontinue |
| ITALIAN 463 | Italian Poetry from Romanticism to Hermeticism | Discontinue |
| ITALIAN 552 | The Renaissance: | Discontinue |
| ITALIAN 659 | The Divine Comedy | Discontinue |
| ITALIAN 660 | The Divine Comedy | Discontinue |
| ITALIAN 670 | Studies in Italian Literature: | Discontinue |
| NURS 620 | Global Food Security and Systems | Discontinue |
| NURS 690 | Global Health Governance: Key Players, Financing and Challenges | Discontinue |
| SPANISH 757 | Seminar in One or More Areas of Siglo de Oro Literature and Related Topics: | Discontinue |
b. Course Changes
| Course # | Course Title | Course Change |
| BUS ADM 772 | Portfolio Management | Change Bus Adm 771 from Prerequisite to Corequisite. Allowing students to take these courses at the same time gives students more flexibility and allows them to move through the program in a timely manner. |
| BUS ADM 771 | Investments | Change Busmgmt 705 Corporate Finance and Busmgmt 709 Predictive Analytics from Prerequisites to Corequisites for Bus Adm 771 Investments. This change allows students to take Bus Adm 771 Investments sooner and move through the program more efficiently. |
| BUS ADM 773 | Options and Futures | Change Bus Adm 771 from prerequisite to corequisite. Allowing students to take these courses at the same time gives students more flexibility and allows them to move through the program in a timely manner |
| BUS ADM 779 | Fixed Income Securities | Change Bus Adm 771 from prerequisite to corequisite. Allowing students to take these courses at the same time gives students more flexibility and allows them to move through the program in a timely manner. |
| BUSMGMT 709 | Applied Statistical Modeling Predictive Analytics for Managers | Course Title Change – Applied Statistical Modeling for Managers The word “predictive” in the current title is restrictive and BUSMGMT 709 covers fundamentals of statistics through various modeling techniques that are predictive or explanatory, but the course is not purely “predictive.” |
| HIST 37 | Topics in the History of Religious Thought: | Instructor wishes to streamline description and account for different instructors’ varying approaches to how the course is taught. |
| HIST 386 | Africans in World History History: Communities, Cultures, and Ideas | Course Title Change – Africans in World History Instructor wishes to streamline title and description. |
| HIST 392 | The History of Southern Africa | Course description change – Instructor wishes to convey the broader scope of the course. |
| HIST 419 | America Since 1945 | Instructor wishes to modernize the description and provide more detail on the topic. |
| COMPLIT 363 | Chinese Literature in the Global Context: | (1) modify course description of COMPLIT 363/363G to allow a focus on classical and pre-modern topics; (2) add a jointly-offered course of CHINESE 363/363G |
| COMPSCI 444 | Introduction to Text Retrieval and Its Applications in Biomedicine | Administratively updating jointly offered course rule. Also change the prereq for the cs We are adding a Python programming option, as CS 402 as there is nothing Java specific about the content, and some students will prefer Python. |
| English 406 | Advanced English Grammar | Discontinue LINGUIS 406/406G, but keep ENGLISH 406/406G active. LINGUIS 406/406G was set to be discontinued a few years ago, but the CIM form was never submitted. |
| OCCTHPY 704 | Musculoskeletal Analysis and Occupational Function | Course Title Change – Occupational Physical Rehabilitation I: Assessment – Course titles are being updated to better reflect their role within the Physical Rehabilitation curriculum of the MS in Occupational Therapy Degree Program and to ensure a cohesive, clearly sequenced set of courses with consistent naming conventions. |
| OCCTHPY 705 | Occupational Therapy in Physical Rehabilitation I | Course Title Change – OT in Physical Rehabilitation II: Musculoskeletal Analysis and Function Course titles are being updated to better reflect their role within the Physical Rehabilitation curriculum of the MS in Occupational Therapy Degree Program and to ensure a cohesive, clearly sequenced set of courses with consistent naming conventions. |
| OCCTHPY 706 | Occupational Therapy in Physical Rehabilitation II | Course Title Change – OT in Physical Rehabilitation III: Neurological & Physiological Dysfunction Course titles are being updated to better reflect their role within the Physical Rehabilitation curriculum of the MS in Occupational Therapy Degree Program and to ensure a cohesive, clearly sequenced set of courses with consistent naming conventions. |
| OCCTHPY 710 | Fieldwork Seminar V Community Models of Occupational Therapy Practice Fieldwork Seminar V | Course Title Change and credit reduction – Fieldwork Seminar V This course has been incorporated into our fieldwork seminar series, and the name change reflects that integration. The credit reduction reflects the removal or relocation of material that is no longer relevant to current professional practice. |
| OCCTHPY 718 | Occupational Therapy in Acute Care | Course Title Change – OT in Physical Rehabilitation IV: Case-Intervention The course title was revised to reflect intentional integration within the occupational therapy physical rehabilitation curriculum. |
IV. New Business
1. Program changes
a. Program Inactivation (forever)
| Program | Proposed change(s) |
| Human Resources and Labor Relations, MHRLR | Inactivate Program |
b. Program Changes
| Architecture, March | Not changing curriculum but changing the program curriculum page for the catalog to make it easier to read. |
| Communication, MA | Updates to admissions requirements |
| Communication, PhD | Edits to admission requirements. |
| Communication Sciences and Disorders, MS | Wording clarifying admissions requirements and requirements at the time of program start. |
| Dance MFA | Adjusting Advance to Major and Admission section to reflect improved communication shared by the Dance Graduate Representative, Maria Gillespie. |
| Information Studies, PhD | Unsuspend/reactivate – We suspended admissions to the PhD program for one academic year and plan to admit students for Fall 2027. |
| Management, MS: Finance Analysis | Remove BUS ADM 751 as a required course and change the required credits from 21 to 18 and overall credits from 33 to 30. Bus Adm 751 Is no longer offered, and the reduced number of required credits allows students to choose more courses in their area of interest in the electives and give them more flexibility to move through the program in a timely manner |
| Political Science, MA | The Department of Political Science proposes to institute automatic admission for our high-performing undergraduate students. We believe this change will boost enrollment in our MA program and serve as reward for our outstanding undergraduates. This entails waiving most application requirements for UWM political science majors with GPAs higher than 3.5. Qualifying applicants will still need to fill out the graduate school’s online application and submit transcripts (in order to verify GPA), but test scores, letters, and personal statement are waived. |
| Social Welfare, PhD | Removal of the GRE requirement. |
2. New Accelerated Graduate Degrees
Nothing for September Meeting
3. New Courses
| Course # | Course Title | Course Change |
| INFOST 580 | Computing Fundamentals for IT professionals | Computer Science notified SOIS on September 4, 2024 that they will no longer offer COMPST 701 and COMPST 703, two of the core courses in SOIS’ MSIST program. Susan McCroy’s email stated, “The Comp Studies classes (701 and 703) were discussed (by both MSIST and the CS faculty). I hereby confirm that Computer Science would like SOIS to assume responsibility for course instruction, assignment, enrollment as well as the SCH for these two courses.” |
4. New Programs
| Program | Proposed change(s) |
| African and African Diaspora Studies, Graduate Certificate | The Department of African & African Diaspora Studies proposes the establishment of a Graduate Certificate in African & African Diaspora Studies in response to sustained interdisciplinary demand among graduate students for advanced coursework focused on African, African American, and African Diaspora communities. |
| Ethical Hacking, Graduate Microcredential | Proposal to create a graduate microcredential program in Ethical Hacking at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies (UWM SOIS). The microcredential is a strategic initiative that aligns with industry demands, student career goals, and the university’s broader educational mission and uses three existing courses at SOIS: INFOST 694G, INFOST 695G, INFOST 696G. |
| Human and Organizational Learning and Leadership, EdD | Request for Authorization to Plan a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) in Human & Organizational Learning and Leadership |
| Human Resources Management and Analytics, Graduate Certificate | Proposing new graduate certificate with existing courses. |
V. Other Business as Needed
a. Informational
| Program | Proposed change(s) |
| Assistive Technology and Accessible Design, Graduate Certificate | Suspend (temporary) Admission to Program |
| Occupational Therapy, MS: Assistive Technology and Accessible Design | Suspend Admission to Program |